Uniform Facility Data Set, 1998: [United States] (ICPSR 3050)

The Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS) was designed to measure the scope and use of drug abuse treatment services in the United States. The survey collects information from each privately- and publicly-funded facility in the country that provides substance abuse treatment as well as from state-identified facilities that provide other substance abuse services. Data are collected on a number of topics including facility operation, services provided (assessment, therapy, testing, health, continuing c... (more info)

The Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS) was designed to measure the scope and use of drug abuse treatment services in the United States. The survey collects information from each privately- and publicly-funded facility in the country that provides substance abuse treatment as well as from state-identified facilities that provide other substance abuse services. Data are collected on a number of topics including facility operation, services provided (assessment, therapy, testing, health, continuing care, special programs, transitional services, community outreach, ancillary), type of treatment, numbers of clients, and various client characteristics. The main objective of the UFDS is to produce data that can be used to assess the nature and extent of substance abuse treatment services, to assist in the forecast of treatment resource requirements, to analyze treatment service trends, to conduct national, regional, and state-level comparative analyses of treatment services and utilization, and to generate the National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs and its on-line equivalent, the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator.

UFDS is a
point-prevalence survey. It provides information on the substance
abuse treatment system and its clients on the reference date. Client
counts do not represent annual totals. Rather, UFDS provides a
"snapshot" of substance abuse treatment facilities and clients on an
average day.

UFDS collects data about facilities, not individual
clients. Data on clients represent an aggregate of clients in
treatment for each reporting facility.

For the few facilities that did not provide client
demographics, missing data were imputed using averaged responses from
facilities in the same state and with similar ownership and client mix
characteristics. For each variable containing imputed data, there is a
corresponding imputation flag variable that indicates whether a case's
value on the variable resulted from an actual response or was
imputed.

UFDS attempts to obtain responses from all known
treatment and prevention facilities, but it is a voluntary survey.
There is no adjustment for facility nonresponse.

To protect the
privacy of respondents, all variables that could be used to identify
individual facilities, including financial data originally collected,
have been removed from the public use file. These modifications should
not affect most analytic uses of the public use file.

Methodology

Sample:
The sample included all facilities in the National Master
Facility Inventory (NMFI). The NMFI is a comprehensive listing of all
known substance abuse treatment facilities and state-identified
prevention and education facilities. Questionnaires were distributed
to 21,825 facilities in the following general categories: treatment
facilities administratively tracked by states and reporting to the
Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) (about 9,500), treatment facilities
administratively tracked by states but not reporting to TEDS (about
3,600), treatment facilities not administratively tracked by states
(about 3,000), and nontreatment facilities administratively tracked by
states (about 2,900). Of these facilities, 2,651 (12 percent) were
determined to have been closed or were not providing substance abuse
services on October 1, 1998, the survey reference date. This yielded
an effective sample size of 19,174.

Data Source:

self-administered questionnaires and telephone
interviews

Response Rates:
The response rate of the effective sample was 90
percent (17,321). This data collection is comprised of only the subset
of these facilities that provide treatment and/or detoxification
services, either alone or in conjunction with other substance abuse
services. This includes 13,455 treatment facilities, or 78 percent of
those facilities that responded to the survey. Because some of these
facilities combined client counts for affiliated facilities, the
client counts actually include data on 13,880 facilities. A total of
78 percent of the 13,455 facilities completed the mail questionnaire
and 22 percent completed the survey in a telephone interview directed
at mail nonrespondents.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Created online analysis version with question text.

Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:2000-11-10

Version History:

2014-12-10 Changed the Stata system data file from version 13 to version 12 for compatibility on a wider range of systems. Also updated codebook to correct the cover page and frequencies section.

2014-04-25 This study update was done in order to remove the geographic variable County.

2013-10-18 Updated the variable order and groupings so they coincide with the more recent questionnaire design. This was done to make the study more consistent with other years in the N-SSATS series.

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.